Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking

by Rachid Koraichi (Artist), Ghada Amer (Artist), Kutlug Ataman (Artist), Mona Hatoum (Artist), Emily Jacir (Artist)

Overview

The attention currently directed from the West to the Islamic world has profound ramifications for the art made by those who come from the region but live elsewhere: that origin is increasingly becoming a defining term in the consideration of works by artists such as Mona Hatoum and Shirin Neshat. Resisting any homogenizing impulse, Without Boundary recognizes a need to ask if this art is marked by an Islamic difference. Author and curator Fereshteh Daftari considers issues ranging from the aesthetic legacy of Islamic art to contemporary ideas of identity and faith. Essays by MoMA Director Glenn D. Lowry, whose own academic and curatorial background involves traditional Islamic arts; Homi Bhabha, the preeminent theorist and scholar of the postcolonial condition; and the Turkish writer and novelist Orhan Pamuk, winner of the German Book Peace Prize and author of My Name Is Read and Snow. Artists include Jananne-Al-Ani, Ghada Amer, Kutlug Ataman, The Atlas Group/Walid Raad, Mona Hatoum, Shirazeh Houshiary, Emily Jacir, Y.Z. Kami, Mike Kelley, Rachid Koraichi, Shirin Neshat, Marjane Satrapi, Shirana Shahbazi, Raqib Shaw, Shahzia Sikander and Bill Viola.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780870700859
Publisher:	The Museum of Modern Art
Publication date:	02/01/2006
Pages:	104
Product dimensions:	9.26(w) x 10.96(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Rashid Koraichi was born in Algeria in 1947 and grew up under French colonial rule. The artist's work was recently on view in The Short Century at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, and a solo exhibition of his work, curated by Salah Hassan, was held at the Hebert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, last winter.

Ghada Amer was born in 1963 in Cairo. She attended in art school in Paris and currently lives and works in New York. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including a solo show at the Contemporary Art Museum in Houston and such group shows as the 2000 Whitney Biennial 2000, the 1999 Venice Biennale, the Kwangju Biennale and the Short Century.

Kultug Ataman was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1961 and graduated with a BA in film from the University of California, USA in 1985. Since the completion of his MFA in 1988, he has pursued a career as both a film-maker and an artist. He currently lives and works in Istanbul, London, and Barcelona, and is the 2004 recipient of the Carnegie Prize and a 2004 nominee for Britainis prestigious Turner Prize.

Mona Hatoum was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1952 and came to London in 1975. She was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1995 and has had solo exhibitions at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Castello di Rivoli in Turin, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Tate Britain, among others. She recently curated Artist's Choice at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Emily Jacir was born in 1970 and lives in New York and Ramallah. A graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program, her work has been included in numerous group shows over the past five years, including the 8th Istanbul Biennial and the 2004Whitney Biennial. Solo shows have been mounted at galleries and cultural centers in Ramallah, Venice, Jerusalem, New Haven, Cleveland, and New York.

Mike Kelley, one of the most controversial, prolific and influential figures in contemporary art, was born in 1954 in Detroit, Michigan, and earned a Bachelors degree from the University of Michigan and a Masters from California Institute of the Arts. His work, often wickedly humorous and drawing on both high art and the vernacular with distinctively American iconography, ranges across media such as drawing, painting, sculpture, music, performance, writing and video projects, the last often in collaboration with artists such as Paul McCarthy, Raymond Pettibon and Tony Oursler. In 1993, The Whitney Museum of American Art held a major retrospective of his work. He lives in Los Angeles, and is a member of the graduate faculty at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena.

Shirin Neshat was born in 1957 in Qazvin, Iran. As a teenager she moved to the U.S. to study art at the University of California, Berkeley. Five years later, following Iranis Islamic Revolution, she found herself in unintentional exile, unable to return home. It would be another 15 years before she went back, and before she began to make the art for which she is best known. Her first solo show, at Franklin Furnace, was followed by a long list of others, including exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Walker Art Center and the Tate Gallery. She has participated in the Venice Biennale, the Carnegie International, and the Whitney Biennial, and in film festivals including Tribeca and Sundance. Her work has won the International Center of Photographyis Infinity Award and the First International Prize at the Venice Biennale.

Homi Bhabha is a central figure in cultural studies and has been invited to to deliver kectures around the world at important institutions, including The University of London, England, whilst holding a more permanent position at the University of Chicago and Harvard University since 1997.

Orhan Pamuk, one of the most prominent novelists working today, was born in 1952, in Istanbul, where he continues to reside. He is the author of The Black Book, Snow, and , among other novels, and has received numerous major international honors and prizes for his writing. In 2006, he was named the Nobel Laureate in Literature.

Shahzia Sikander was born in 1969 in Lahore, Pakistan. She lives and works in New York. Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., the Kemper Museum, Kansas City, and the Fabric Workshop and Museum Project, Philadelphia, among other venues. She was the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2006 and is represented in New York by Sikkema Jenkins & Co.